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I Had Spent 12 Years Shooting This Window Until Owners Demolished The Building – I Caught Its Final Moment
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I Had Spent 12 Years Shooting This Window Until Owners Demolished The Building – I Caught Its Final Moment

I Had Been Shooting This Window For 12 Years Until Owners Demolished The Building, And I Caught Its Final MomentI Had Spent 12 Years Shooting This Window Until Owners Demolished The Building - I Caught Its Final MomentI Had Been Shooting This Window For 12 Years Until Owners Decided To Demolish The Building - I Caught Its Final MomentI Had Spent 12 Years Shooting This Window Until Owners Demolished The Building - I Caught Its Final MomentI Had Spent 12 Years Shooting This Window Until Owners Demolished The Building - I Caught Its Final MomentI Had Spent 12 Years Shooting This Window Until Owners Demolished The Building - I Caught Its Final MomentI Had Spent 12 Years Shooting This Window Until Owners Demolished The Building - I Caught Its Final MomentI Had Spent 12 Years Shooting This Window Until Owners Demolished The Building - I Caught Its Final MomentI Had Spent 12 Years Shooting This Window Until Owners Demolished The Building - I Caught Its Final MomentI Had Spent 12 Years Shooting This Window Until Owners Demolished The Building - I Caught Its Final Moment
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I live in Istanbul for 24 years. I’m a lawyer and a photographer. This was the window I used to see every day against my room, so only I was able to see it from this angle. Like I said, for 12 years, I saw it every day, we saw so many faces of each other.

During that time, I posted some of it’s pictures to the internet and in a way, it caught people’s attention. Publishers used two of them on book covers and one is showcased in an exhibition. One day, owners of the building decided to dismantle it, in order to build a new one. While the building was being dismantled, I managed to take a final picture.

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    Alper Yesiltas

    Alper Yesiltas

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    My name is Alper Yesiltas, lawyer & photographer living in Istanbul, imagining scenes and capturing memories for about 19 years. During that time, some of my photos are edited worldwide in books, magazines, exhibitions, web sites and were awarded in several photo contests.

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    Alper Yesiltas

    Alper Yesiltas

    Author, Community member

    My name is Alper Yesiltas, lawyer & photographer living in Istanbul, imagining scenes and capturing memories for about 19 years. During that time, some of my photos are edited worldwide in books, magazines, exhibitions, web sites and were awarded in several photo contests.

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    Alia G.
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow... It’s interesting how people can get attached to inanimate objects they’ve never seen. Here I am getting emotional about a window. A really well done series!

    Hari Onago
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I read the title I thought: "12 years shooting a window, are you nuts?" However after looking at your pictures I retract my previous comment. I can see now how it is just not a window but much more than that. Beautiful pictures and great storytelling through these photographs, they moved me.

    Jay Broderick
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's a window...stop crying!!!! bye bye little window....it's a freaking window!!! sniff....

    Ehren Thomsen
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Jay, don't get upset by all the downvotes. I heard you sobbing. Here, here, you're not alone *hugs Jay*

    Load More Replies...
    Plasti Caca
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You should have taken the window and make it a picture frame for one of your window photos. It would get a second life. Maybe it's still out there though. Sad.

    AngelofThursdays
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That was actually beautiful... it had its own life and experiences then died, and now I am emotionally compromised because of a window.

    Erisa Desu
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    there are so many abandoned buildings in Istanbul. They should have renovated instead demolition it. No one can claim those houses either way.Those who left can't return.

    Rebekah
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Simply stunning. And sad. It's just a damn window and I'm having all the feels. VERY well done.

    Kenny Kulbiski
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There's something about curtains in the breeze. Comfortable melancholy, if there is such a thing.

    La Roldana
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    This comment has been deleted.

    Jean-luc Picard
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's like looking into a sad and lonely soul who finally gives everything up. Quite melancholic in it's own sad way. Deep.

    Shruti Naik
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is so perfectly wonderful! And that last pic looked straight out of a movie with destruction and chaos all around it.

    Olivia Milford
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hahaha at first I thought that the last picture was a advertisement for clash of clans or something like that

    Ivan Gonzalez
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Amazing...its like the window held on for as long as it could for the final picture. Great series with a powerdul ending.

    Cecilia Bálint
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    you can spot on the first two pictures that there was a different curtain as well. BTW some curtains are lasting and will stay the same even for a lifetime – so what?

    Load More Replies...
    Aya Othman
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i don't know why i feel like that , but in somehow it touched me so , u know , building have soul too , amazing story

    adis
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bored Panda is feauturing now-days this kind of creations? I dont see what is so special about this!

    Carl Brennan
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He shlould have asked to keep the window frame when the were demolishing it.

    Catori
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Somehow that last image saddened me lol I liked that window too and would have done exactly the same thing! Beautiful photos nice one

    tsuki nercua
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In just a few slides, this window managed to get in to my heart and it made me feel like this window and I have been been together for years and seeing the window in its final moments made sob.

    Mark Erwin
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It seems that the last image happened so fast I am kind of blindsided. :(

    spirit wolf
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But in these pictures it still lives. Unlike one too many unfortunate windows.

    Renard Bansale
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just wait. An indie band or ambient electronic artist somewhere will use one of these photos for their next album cover.

    John Smith
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

    That same boring a*s curtain hung there the whole time? I suppose that I admire your patience and consistency. But you need to find better subjects.

    Alia G.
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow... It’s interesting how people can get attached to inanimate objects they’ve never seen. Here I am getting emotional about a window. A really well done series!

    Hari Onago
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I read the title I thought: "12 years shooting a window, are you nuts?" However after looking at your pictures I retract my previous comment. I can see now how it is just not a window but much more than that. Beautiful pictures and great storytelling through these photographs, they moved me.

    Jay Broderick
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's a window...stop crying!!!! bye bye little window....it's a freaking window!!! sniff....

    Ehren Thomsen
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Jay, don't get upset by all the downvotes. I heard you sobbing. Here, here, you're not alone *hugs Jay*

    Load More Replies...
    Plasti Caca
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You should have taken the window and make it a picture frame for one of your window photos. It would get a second life. Maybe it's still out there though. Sad.

    AngelofThursdays
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That was actually beautiful... it had its own life and experiences then died, and now I am emotionally compromised because of a window.

    Erisa Desu
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    there are so many abandoned buildings in Istanbul. They should have renovated instead demolition it. No one can claim those houses either way.Those who left can't return.

    Rebekah
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Simply stunning. And sad. It's just a damn window and I'm having all the feels. VERY well done.

    Kenny Kulbiski
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There's something about curtains in the breeze. Comfortable melancholy, if there is such a thing.

    La Roldana
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    This comment has been deleted.

    Jean-luc Picard
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's like looking into a sad and lonely soul who finally gives everything up. Quite melancholic in it's own sad way. Deep.

    Shruti Naik
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is so perfectly wonderful! And that last pic looked straight out of a movie with destruction and chaos all around it.

    Olivia Milford
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hahaha at first I thought that the last picture was a advertisement for clash of clans or something like that

    Ivan Gonzalez
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Amazing...its like the window held on for as long as it could for the final picture. Great series with a powerdul ending.

    Cecilia Bálint
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    you can spot on the first two pictures that there was a different curtain as well. BTW some curtains are lasting and will stay the same even for a lifetime – so what?

    Load More Replies...
    Aya Othman
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i don't know why i feel like that , but in somehow it touched me so , u know , building have soul too , amazing story

    adis
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bored Panda is feauturing now-days this kind of creations? I dont see what is so special about this!

    Carl Brennan
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He shlould have asked to keep the window frame when the were demolishing it.

    Catori
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Somehow that last image saddened me lol I liked that window too and would have done exactly the same thing! Beautiful photos nice one

    tsuki nercua
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In just a few slides, this window managed to get in to my heart and it made me feel like this window and I have been been together for years and seeing the window in its final moments made sob.

    Mark Erwin
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It seems that the last image happened so fast I am kind of blindsided. :(

    spirit wolf
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But in these pictures it still lives. Unlike one too many unfortunate windows.

    Renard Bansale
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just wait. An indie band or ambient electronic artist somewhere will use one of these photos for their next album cover.

    John Smith
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

    That same boring a*s curtain hung there the whole time? I suppose that I admire your patience and consistency. But you need to find better subjects.

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